Source: Shenzhen Evening News
"Sudden fainting, loss of consciousness, convulsions of limbs, foaming at the mouth."
"I was fine after a few minutes, but I don't remember anything when I woke up!"
The above is what happened to 20-year-old Xiaoye a year ago.
Recently, this situation has come again...
She came to the hospital nervously to check, what? Half of my brain was eaten by "worms"!
What the hell is going on?
Something big in the head
Xiaoye (pseudonym), a 20-year-old, came to Shenzhen from his hometown in Jiangxi to work last year, and when he was about to the end of the year, he suddenly felt numbness in his left body, especially his left hand, and he obviously had no strength.
Went to the hospital for examination, did a magnetic resonance scan, and found that the right side of the thalamus had a mass and edema.
Something went wrong with his brain, and Xiaoye immediately thought of something:
In fact, a year ago, she had a day of fainting and loss of consciousness, even to the point of twitching limbs and foaming at the mouth.
However, after a few minutes, everything was back to business.
Two months later, she had another seizure.
After that, she went to the hospital to see a doctor, magnetic resonance suggested that there was an abnormal signal in the brain, and the EEG had abnormal fluctuations, so the doctor prescribed her anti-epileptic drugs, saying that it was a preventive drug.
After taking this medicine, I did not pass out again.
After half a year, I slowly stopped eating.
After finding something growing in his brain this time, Xiaoye checked the information on the Internet, and finally went to the Neurosurgery Department of Shenzhen University General Hospital, which was very experienced in epilepsy treatment, thinking that it would be good to cut the tumor in his brain.
After being hospitalized in the neurosurgery department, after the examination, the doctor found that the occupation of the brain was very large, equivalent to the size of half a fist, and in the case of not being able to clarify the nature, it could not be cut recklessly, otherwise it would be harmful and unprofitable.
To determine the cause, the Neurosurgery Department organized consultations.
After consultation, Leaflet was transferred to the neurology ward.
Trace it to the end and find that the culprit is actually it!
A week later, after careful examination by the doctors, a breakthrough was finally made:
In cerebrospinal fluid cytology, doctors find particularly high eosinophil values. At 1mm⊃3; In the cerebrospinal fluid, 72 eosinophils were found, compared to 0-1 in normal people.
This result suggests that parasite infections are highly likely.
After Chen Liming, deputy chief physician of the Department of Neurology, asked about his medical history, Xiaoye recalled that the family lived by the river, had dogs, and had not eaten any animals raw.
But there is no clear evidence, and it is still impossible to make a judgment.
Eventually, after sending cerebrospinal fluid for parasite screening twice, several bold bold words appeared on the report sheet:
" Schizocephalic larvae antibody – weakly positive "
Upon seeing it, Dr. Chen's heart was relieved, and the culprit was found!
Leaflets have cerebral parasitic diseases because of "schizophrenia infection".
In the end, Dr. Chen prescribed oral medication to Xiaoye for long-term deworming treatment, and has now improved and discharged from the hospital, and has not had seizures after many follow-up visits. Avoid parasitic infections
Remember not to eat raw frogs, snakes, and drink raw water
"Split head larvae infection" brings cerebral parasitic disease, so what exactly is "split head larvae"?
Doctor introduction: Taenia mansonii (that is, adult worms) is not a threat to people, and the main harm to people is split-headed larvae (adolescence). After entering the human body, the split-headed larvae will flow around and destroy.
◆ The common ways in which schizophrenia enter the human body are:
1. Eat raw or unripe frogs, snakes, chickens or pork containing schizophrenia;
2. External application of raw frog meat or raw snake meat;
3. Drink raw water containing sword water fleas (larvae).
◆ How to eliminate Schizocephalics?
Schizothia is relatively sensitive to high temperatures, in vitro conditions, at a temperature of 56 °C, basically not more than 5 minutes, 100 °C cooking for 2 minutes, Schizothia will die.
There are also studies that show that freezing at -20 °C for 2 hours can also kill schizophrenia in frog meat.
Therefore, changing bad habits, staying away from epidemic water, not using frog meat, snake meat, snake skin to apply to the skin and wounds, not eating raw or semi-raw frogs, snakes, tadpoles and other animals, not swallowing snake bile, not drinking raw water, etc. are effective measures to prevent parasites.
Written by | Shenzhen Evening News reporter Zhou Qian correspondent Wang Suqi